The NRA's gun-free zone argument is a myth

2:54 AM,
Mar. 31, 2013

Written by

Mark
Follman

Ever since the massacres in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., this idea has been repeated like some surreal requiem: The reason that mass gun violence keeps happening is because the U.S. is full of places that ban guns.

Second Amendment activists have long floated this theme, and now lawmakers across the nation are using it, too. During a recent floor debate in the Colorado legislature, Republican state Rep. Carole Murray put it this way: "Most of the mass killings that we talk about have been affected in gun-free zones. So when you have a gun-free zone, it's like saying, 'Come and get me.'"